The jury in the trial of a man accused of strangling his ex-wife, before cramming her trussed-up body into a suitcase, has retired to consider the verdict.

Ashwin Daudia (51) denies murdering Kiran Daudia (46) at the former matrimonial home in Lyme Road, North Evington, Leicester, on the afternoon of January 16 last year.

Mrs Daudia’s body was discovered the next morning, hidden inside the suitcase, beside dustbins outside a house in nearby Cromer Street.

Kiran Daudia (Image: Facebook)

Daudia, a factory worker, told the jury his ex-wife died after they had a fight during an argument when she returned home – on the day the house was being sold to Mrs Daudia’s sister and he had been due to move out.

He claimed Mrs Daudia lost her temper with him because he had not packed in readiness to move.

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He said he then lied to his sons, relatives and the police; by falsely claiming his ex-wife did not return home from a morning shift at a Next Directory call centre – and claimed to know nothing of her disappearance.